ES295498A1 - Improvements in goods transporters (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Improvements in freight conveyors, of the type comprising a slide rail, a series of slides with wheels for fixing the goods, advanced along the rail for the same, a conveyor element disposed above the slide rail and provided at intervals and throughout their length of drag dogs, each of them adapted to be coupled to drag stirrups mounted one on each slide in fixed relation thereto, adapted to advance the sliders along the rail, and means for displacing the driving dogs of the conveyor element with respect to said element from a position of dragging the sliders to a position of decoupling thereof with respect to each of a series of sliders in successive advance, so as to allow a series of sliders remain at rest one behind the other in spaced relation to each other at some predetermined point of the carriage slides, characterized in that each slide is provided with a dog lifting member, movable and adapted to lift each actuator dog to an inoperative position uncoupled from the actuator footboard, of said slide, to effect the disconnection of the drive thereto, being each dog lifting member of a striker member disposed at the forward end of the corresponding slider, and adapted, when displaced rearwardly relative to the corresponding slider, is provided to move the dog lifting member to a lifting position of the actuating dogs its inoperative position, each slide also being provided at one end thereof with a spacer member extended in the forward and backward direction with respect to the associated slider, a stop member spring loaded or gravity mounted at one end of each slide and adapted to engage a stirrup provided at the proximal end of the adjacent slider, each stop member being capable of a limited forward and backward movement relative to the associated slider under the control of its spring or gravity load, such being the arrangement that the striker member of a next slider is allowed to engage and to be displaced by the rear part of the preceding slide to uncouple the drive of the next slide and keep said drive uncoupled independently of any forward and backward movement of the next slide with respect to its rail, produced by the moment possessed by the transported load down the slide. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)